Fabulous, Creative Day

What a fantastic team!



They offered over 1,000 seriously beautiful items for sale.























Hundreds of customers were happy to take home hundreds of those items.





Musicians took the experience to another level of greatness.





Ladies called the event "magical".



Gentlemen called it "legit".



Altogether, it was a day of creativity, independent craft appreciation, good people, good food, good music, good shopping, and good times - a grand success!



Thanks to Noah K. for capturing the event through photos!

This video of our daughter dancing sums up my feelings about the experience.

Oh, What a Beautiful Morning!

It's Handmade Holiday Shop day!

We're getting everything set up, and I can guarantee that rain or shine, you're going to love this shop! Why? Because the entire shop is indoors! What better way to spend a rainy Saturday afternoon than cozied up in our home sipping tea or coffee, perusing hundreds of handmade wonders, painting collaboratively, and listening to live acoustic music with a bunch of cool people? There is no better way!


Forecast from our doorstep: cloudy with a chance of MAGIC!

And now, to announce the winners of our giveaway!

The random number generator chose a very deserving winner of the earrings, and she is........ Tessa K!

Next, the random number generator picked a girl whose dreams would come true when she won the tiny dinosaur, and that girl is.......... Audrey W!

Congratulations ladies, and thank you to everyone who entered and spread the word about today's event! Remember, everybody's a winner when they convince their friends and family to buy them gifts at the Handmade Holiday Shop!

The Handmade Holiday Shop

Check out these pictures previewing a few of the over 800 items that will be for sale at the Handmade Holiday Shop! Then, at the bottom of this post, find out how you can win a pair of hand-crafted earrings or a tiny stuffed dino!


Becky


Dan


Wendi


Tessa


Dan


me


Chris


Marlee


Dan and me


The Other Bethany

Pretty amazing stuff, right?

How would you like to win some cool stuff of your own? Either...

...this dinosaur (click the image to see a close-up... eek tiny plates down his back!)


...or these earrings!


There are three ways to enter!

• Post a Facebook status about the Handmade Holiday Shop, linking to this blog post (comment here to tell me you did that).
• Tweet about the Handmade Holiday Shop, linking to this blog post and using hashtag #handmadeholidayshop (leave another comment here to tell me you did that).
• Blog about the Handmade Holiday Shop, linking to this blog post (leave another comment here to tell me you did that, and include the link to your own blog post).

Get it? Three ways to enter; do all three things and you get three entries! Make sure you leave a separate comment on this blog for each entry.

This giveaway ends Friday, November 11 at 10 p.m. and we'll announce the winners the next morning!*

If you come to the Handmade Holiday Shop, we'll give you your prize that day! If you can't make it, we'll send it to you!

Part of the proceeds of the Handmade Holiday Shop go to My Safe Harbor. Support a great cause while getting your holiday shopping done! We can't wait to see you there!

*My family members are ineligible to win, but if they help spread the word I might upgrade their Christmas presents.

The HHS

Check back this evening for preview photos and information on how you can win these earrings!